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That's awesome Ross! It only took me a minute to recognize it. How many people played this back in 1st edition AD&D? I still have it. Good for a laugh!
The following link is one I have seen before either here or maybe I stumbled on it myself: http://www.angryalien.com/tombofhorrors.asp
Seriously? Personal preferences aside, how in the fuck would you run Star Wars in 3.X?
From everything I've heard Saga was their alpha test on a lot of 4E stuff, which you've indicated you have a distaste for. Plain old 3.X would be terrible for trying to play the setting.
So you just don't think 3.X would be good at emulating the universe and so forth, then? Fair enough.
Well, I've played and ran Star Wars in 3.X before, and I know it's poor at emulating the universe firsthand. At a certain Point, Force Users and Combat min-maxers take center stage and in a game system where most encounters and hazards are more efficiently solved by hacking through them, anyone that decided to invest in tech, knowledge, etc. sits with their head on the table, rolling a d20 to fire a blaster pistol as needed. To run a good SW game, it needs to be more than Lightsaber Fights and Starship battles, and needs a system more abstract than d20.
That, and running any game with the 3.X ruleset looks like a chore to me now that I've ran games in other systems with less mechanical prep work for challenging encounters and lets me focus on building an evolving story. I'll Play 3.X, but I'll never want to run it again./personally I wouldn't run Star Wars in anything because I find the entire universe to be dreadfully uninteresting the SECOND anything with force powers gets into the picture, and since the whole thing is set up to be 'LOOK AT THE FORCE GUYS HEY GUYS WE HAVE THE FORCE OK' it would feel rather like missing the point to not include it at all so I'd just go with a different universe entirely.
Which is why though I like the Star ORE stuff on principle (and now I have equipment, yay!), I'm still leaning on the more generic WT ruleset. Star ORE still has that feel of classic Film Star Wars where Jedi and Sith turn into these mystical super-soldiers that trounce all over any 'vanilla' hero that dares challenge them. By the time the universe hits the Legacy Era, you have Force-using traditions splintered off into three main factions (Sith, Imperial Knights, and Jedi), the government Split in two, with a third Rebellion faction, and so many other things going on in the universe that if a Jedi starts getting uppity, the GM has the option of sending a group after them saying "I don't know how many guys it'll take to subdue you, but I'll send that many plus one."
Also, this is the same era that is post the 'Vong invasion, with soldiers and tech capable of dealing with Force Users. On top of that, if you read through the comics, you have non-force users capable of pulling off an extraction from the Sith Temple. People without the force with highly specialized equipment and training to stand toe-to-toe with Sith/Jedi. I don't see that being represented in Star ORE as well as a WT guy with Hyperstat (Amphistaff) vs a guy with Coord+LightSaber+ForcePowers.
But that's just me.
I'm rethinking my approach to using the Force with something similar to what Star ORE has, but again, it feels like there is a power curve issue with having it cost as much as any other stat/skill. Maybe I've just been burned by d20 so hard.
No thoughts on the custom Monstership yet?
Seriously? Personal preferences aside, how in the fuck would you run Star Wars in 3.X?
From everything I've heard Saga was their alpha test on a lot of 4E stuff, which you've indicated you have a distaste for. Plain old 3.X would be terrible for trying to play the setting.
They're adorable.
They are also goddamn killing machines. Seriously. Watch the Life After People episode on pets. Corgis are about the only dog breed that will survive.
Okay I'm a terrible person but here's another winner from Reddit's Rpg subreddit -
http://www.reddit.com/r/rpg/comments/rog1k/whats_the_most_creative_misuse_of_rules_youve_seen/
